1. thomas hobbes
How do we know who we are? If you have to ask yourself that question then you are further away from the truth than you think. Descartes said, "I think therefore I am."" Basically if you are thinking then you have a glimmer of who you are. The word I explains it all. We never talk about ourselves in the third person. We refer to ourselves as I or me, in the first person. Thus we should know something about ourselves. Unfortunately not may people think like this and are lead to believe that they do not know anything about themselves. Others think that they know everything there is to know about themselves. Lang's Model of the inner and outer self suggests that we know less about the real [inner] self than the shell [outer] self that we represent. Where do we look? Try inside yourself. Yet, there may not be a self. We may be a part of a collective consciousness like the Borg on Star Trek, where we don't think for ourselves but just do what we are told. An even better example for the idea of mass mentality is that of the armed forces. I have no disrespect for the armed forces, but they don't focus on the self. "You will get yourself killed and the rest of the unit."" When we are first born do we have knowledge of self? Or does this idea manifest at puberty? If we were never introduced to the idea, can there ever be? The skeptic inside of me says that you can be an individual, but highly doubtful without education on the idea of the self. A couple of examples from the readings that have to deal with self-.
identity come from Sartre in The Flies. At the beginning Orestes does not know who he is but after the thought process and education of identity by his tutor he realizes who he is and what he has to do to obtain his identity. The Flies also displays the idea of mass mentality with control of faith. The king of Argon falsely, like the church, imprisons his people with fetters of faith controlling everything about them.
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Truman idea of an ideal world was different from that of Adam & Eve because of the simple fact that Truman thought that reality , our reality , was real rather than believing the philosphy of Adam & Eve which was the perfect world was a world of harmony . ...
As we can see, thus, there is a clear allegory throughout the whole text identifying science with observation of nature: the both of them are closely related and nature is definitely the main source to acquire knowledge, as if it was "philosphied" science. ...
John Locke was born on August 29, 1632, into a middle class family during late Renaissance England. Locke started his studies at Christ Church in Oxford. He then went into medical studies and received a medical license, which he practiced under Anthony Cooper. They became friends, and when Cooper be...
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